Nanshanxia

On this day, after Zhu Yan received the report from the yamen brothers, he took Yuan Xiao and other members of Lao Zhu's family to the gate of the county yamen. When Zhu Yan didn't see Qi Lianhai, he persuaded the already panicked The old lady Zhu said: "Grandmother, don't worry, let's ask Lian Hai here to find out, I don't believe uncle would do something outrageous."

"Hey, I'm not in a hurry. I also believe in your uncle. Although he is usually bragging, he is still reliable at critical moments. He can't do bad things." With the help of Bai Zhen, the old lady turned around on the ground a few times. lock up.

Zhu Yan knew his grandma's temper, and said he was not worried, but he was more worried than anyone else. He was about to reassure the old lady, and Qi Lianhai walked out of the yamen.

"Ah Yan, you can come down now." Qi Lianhai hurriedly came to Zhu Yan's side, seeing that the old Zhu's family members were all there, he suggested again: "Let's go inside quickly and say, it's warm inside, I think it's going to rain again today." Snow."

The weather became more and more gloomy, and the cold wind made people's faces hurt. Zhu Yan felt sorry for Yuan Xiao who was beside him, and agreed to Qi Lianhai's suggestion, and brought a large family into the side hall of the yamen.

The side hall of the yamen was set by the county magistrate as a place for witnesses to rest. Now the county government has not been promoted to handle the case, so there is no one in the side hall, and it happened to be used by Qi Lianhai to greet Zhu Yan's family.

Entering the side hall, Zhu Yan was the first to ask: "Lian Hai, what did my uncle do? The little brother who came this afternoon didn't explain it clearly. Our whole family is really worried."

"I also heard it from my brother when I went back to the yamen to do business in the afternoon. When I heard it, I immediately asked other brothers to report to you. At the same time, I also understood the ins and outs of the matter at this time." Qi Lianhai sat on a chair and rubbed his forehead. Looking at Zhu Yan and the old lady Zhu solemnly, "They said that the tofu sold by the uncle concealed the forbidden medicine Wanyingdan that our government has been investigating. The medicine is a loss-making medicine made by foreigners. It will restore the body immediately, but all these are appearances, there are poisonous insects in it, which will eat away the essence and blood in the person's body, and gradually the person will lose his mind, die like crazy, this is why our town strictly investigates The reason for this."

"It's impossible. My uncle sold the tofu at the market today. He used to greet customers at home with us. How could he have time to resell prohibited drugs?" Zhu Yan looked serious, leaning on the table with one hand , thinking hard.

At the same time, the old lady Zhu, who hadn't spoken for a long time, sat on the other side and said, "Lian Hai, Uncle Ah Yan really just went to the market today. He sent the tofu to Meimeixuan this morning, and when he came back, he said The market in our town is crowded with people near the end of the new year, so why not sell your own tofu, now that the good tofu is not sold, you have sold yourself to prison."

"Zhaofu and I have been eating at your house for so long, I don't know what kind of people your family is, and I don't believe that uncle would be stupid enough to do such a thing, but now that people have stolen money, we have to Think about how we can help uncle find a way to overturn the case, otherwise this shit pot will be completely pinned on uncle and your old Zhu family." The more Qi Lianhai thought about it, the more worried he became, and he couldn't help sighing along with Zhu Yan and the others.

Zhu Yan was always thinking about what Qi Lianhai said just now, getting stolen goods?Then can he start with the stolen goods, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, he sat up straight and asked Qi Lianhai: "Lian Hai, can you let me see the stolen goods?"

Hearing the sound, Qi Lianhai thought for a moment, then looked around and whispered to Zhu Yan, "Yes, but you can only go with me. After all, this is evidence related to the case. I'm afraid it might be a bit awkward for us to go as a whole." Unreasonable.

"Well, I understand all of these, I can go with you." The matter was urgent Zhu Yan and Yuan Xiao said a few words, and then went to the evidence storage place in the county government with Qi Lianhai.

Entering inside, with the help of Qi Lianhai, Zhu Yan saw the tofu box where the forbidden medicine was stored. He approached and looked at the tofu box in front of him. When he opened the lid of the tofu box, he said firmly, "This is not my tofu box." The box, the bottom of my tofu box is engraved with the words of our old Zhujia Doushifang, but there is no under the lid of this box, and I clearly remember this morning that the uncle carried his own box with a It's a small flag specially made by my husband, and there's nothing on it."

Because of Zhu Yan's words, Qi Lianhai fell into silence. He rubbed his chin with one hand and thought about the ins and outs of the matter seriously. After a while, he looked at Zhu Yan and said, "It's possible that someone is deliberately framing uncle. He knows that uncle betrayed you." Tofu, that's why I exchanged the tofu box containing the banned drugs with my uncle's tofu box, thus harming my uncle."

"Well, it's true, but it takes a lot of effort to put real banned drugs into tofu in order to blame uncle, and uncle just went out today. I don't think this person should be Deliberately blaming the uncle, but happened to use the tofu box to resell the banned drugs. When he saw the official came, he directly exchanged the tofu box with the uncle, and then let the uncle act as a scapegoat, so he was able to escape." As soon as Zhu Yan finished speaking, For no reason, he remembered how he and Yuan Xiao ran into Zhu Lao Er in Linzhen before, Zhu Lao Er's expression at that time and the tofu box on his shoulder, which made Zhu Yan fall into deep thought.

"Ah Yan? Can you think of anything useful?" Qi Lianhai stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Zhu Yan, and he said again when Zhu Yan returned to the divine way: "Now I am also investigating this case of smuggling prohibited drugs , If you think of anything, tell me about it, and we can discuss it together, maybe the case will come to light sooner, and uncle can be released from prison as soon as possible."

Facing Qi Lianhai's suggestion, Zhu Yan looked at Qi Lianhai, talked with Qi Lianhai about what he was thinking just now, and after he finished speaking, he did not forget to suggest to Qi Lianhai: "If my guess is correct, then we only need to Ask uncle to confirm, if uncle really met Zhu Lao Er that day, then we can definitely start with Zhu Lao Er."

With Zhu Yan's proposal, Qi Lianhai greeted the brothers in other cells, and brought the old Zhu's men, women and children into the prison.

The prison in the yamen is the darkest place. Ever since Zhu Yan led Yuan Xiao into the prison, he has never let go of Yuan Xiao's hand. As long as there is a strange sound, he will immediately protect Yuan Xiao in the prison. behind.

Under the leadership of Qi Lianhai, Zhu Yan finally saw his uncle, he was worried, but when he saw his uncle's appearance at this time, he couldn't help but feel that his worry seemed a little unnecessary.

My uncle is not at all like other prisoners in the cell, nestling in the haystack and thinking about it. Now he is leisurely holding a picture book and watching it in the corner with concentration.

Seeing this, the old lady Zhu walked forward involuntarily, and said in an anxious tone that the emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuch said: "Oh, my boss, you have been arrested and imprisoned, why do you still have the heart to read the picture album at this time? It's that big!"

After hearing his old mother’s reprimand, Zhu Boss came back to his senses. Seeing that the whole family had come, he got up and walked to the iron fence. He held the iron fence and said excitedly to everyone: “You can come here Oh, I was still thinking about it just now, when will you know about this, I didn't expect it to be quite fast."

"Uncle, thanks to Lian Hai notifying us in time, we came here in a hurry." Zhu Yan looked Boss Zhu up and down, and felt relieved when he saw that Boss Zhu was not injured.

Boss Zhu raised his head and bowed his hands gratefully at Qi Lianhai, and then said to Zhu Yan and his family: "Lian Hai is really my benefactor. When I was imprisoned for the first time, I couldn't stay there, thanks to Lian Hai Arrive in time and arrange me in this secluded and comfortable place."

"Uncle, you are being polite. Zhaofu and I went to your house for dinner when we had nothing to do. We have long regarded ourselves as members of your family. Now that the family is in trouble, there is no reason not to help." Qi Lianhai changed the topic with a smile, Going straight to the point, he said, "Uncle, I heard from the brothers in the yamen that you resell banned drugs. What's going on?"

Zhu Yan took Qi Lianhai's words and said the question that had been circling in his mind, "Yes, uncle, can you tell us about what happened this morning."

"Well, let me think about it carefully." Boss Zhu thought for a while, and when the atmosphere at the scene became more and more quiet, he said: "I helped Meimeixuan deliver the tofu in the morning, and there are quite a lot of people in the market. I told you about my decision to go to the market to sell tofu. You said at the time that it was too cold outside to let me go, but I went anyway. When I arrived at the market, I set up a small stall by myself, and I happened to meet Zhu Second child, he also set up a stall to sell tofu, but the way he sells tofu is very weird."

"Why is it weird?" Zhu Yan asked impatiently.

Boss Zhu saw that everyone was very curious, so he continued: "He doesn't call out at all, he just stands in the crowd staring at him. The shopkeeper of Meimeixuan, the shopkeeper enthusiastically insisted on letting me go into the teahouse for a cup of tea, and I couldn’t refuse, so I went in and drank a cup of hot tea. Got it."

Zhu Yan, who knew all the details, nodded to Qi Lianhai, and then said to Boss Zhu: "Uncle, I asked you about the whole market, except you and Zhu Lao Er, there is a third person who sells tofu like you ?”

Boss Zhu shook his head and answered neatly, "There is no one else."

"If Lian Hai and I are not mistaken, the person who resells the banned drugs should be Zhu Laoer. He noticed that the official came, and when the uncle entered the teahouse, he exchanged the bean curd box with the uncle, and asked the uncle to replace it. He's in jail."

After Zhu Yan finished speaking, the old lady Zhu scolded Zhu's second son from the side, "This enemy who killed a thousand swords knows how to cheat us, can we catch him and confront him!"

At this time, Qi Lianhai, who hadn't spoken for a long time, said: "Grandma Zhu, I'm afraid this is not possible, because we have no evidence to prove, and arrest people just by guessing, I'm afraid it will attract criticism from other people with ulterior motives."

"Then what should we do? We can only let the boss take advantage of this?" The old lady Zhu spat hard on the ground, and then cursed: "Why did I give birth to such a wicked person!"

After the old lady Zhu got angry, everyone in the family dared not speak out, but Zhu Yan stepped forward to persuade him, "Grandma, don't worry, Lian Hai and I have our own solutions."

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On the other hand, the second child Zhu, who came back from the town, is now sitting in his main room thinking about what happened in the morning. The sudden appearance of the official post, and the astonished boss Zhu after being arrested made him unable to continue other things , just leaning on the chair like a dead body.

"Second brother, what's wrong with you today?" Li Lanhua limped into the main room with a pot of water in her hand. She raised her head with difficulty, and looked at him with her eyes that had been deformed by Qin Xiaoe. Zhu Lao Er, seeing that Zhu Lao Er did not answer herself, she said again with a leaky corner of her mouth: "Second Brother, did you meet Zhu Yan and the others in the town?"

Zhu's second son was very sensitive to Zhu Yan's family. He came back to his senses and looked up at Li Lanhua with disgust. After thinking for a while, he said all the things that tortured him, "I was arrested... I wish the boss was arrested."

"What?" Li Lanhua exclaimed, put the teapot on the table casually, staggered and sat on the stool, she was full of joy and asked again: "What's going on, why is Boss Zhu still being arrested? "

"The next family said to change places to buy and sell banned-drugs, so I went to the market in our town as promised, but I didn't want to meet Boss Zhu, not only that, but also officials came. I was so anxious that when Boss Zhu left, I took the opportunity Changed the bean curd box with him, and Zhu Boss was arrested by the officials.” Zhu’s second child trembled a little, he knew that he would suffer a lot of boards and abuse when he entered the prison, and he felt a little guilty when he had a fight with Zhu Boss of.

Li Lanhua noticed something strange about Zhu's second son, she rolled her eyes, and then said: "Then why are you panicking, this is not very good, you see, the boss Zhu went in, just in time for the wicked old man from the old Zhu's family to come in." My wife and your white-eyed wolf eldest son got angry, let him be so angry, and let others beat me, this must be retribution, and I deserve it!"

This Li Lanhua's schadenfreude laughter made Zhu Laoer feel bored, he glanced at Li Lanhua who could not see clearly now, and was at a loss for words.

Li Lanhua laughed for a while, then remembered the business, and asked casually: "Then my second child, are you still doing business?"